Khashoggi: worse than a crime

By Gwynne Dyer Oct. 15, 2018

If the foreigners will not or cannot bring Mohammed bin Salman down, his own family probably will. It is a family business, and his amateurish strategies, his impulsiveness and his regular resort to violence are ruining the firm’s already not very good name.

If Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), really did send a hit team to Turkey to murder dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, pictured, in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul 10 days ago, what will happen next? Photograph courtey of Wikipedia

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